Plot SynopsisIntroducing Ned Racine and Matty Walker:The post-noir erotic thriller opened in the aftermath of a sexual encounter in an upper-floor apartment bedroom in the middle of the night in a humid, sweltering southern city (fictional Miranda Beach, Florida), where the sky was orangish-red and smoky.[He is a graduate student working on his doctor of philosophy degree from Cambridge.] Ex-patriate, free-spirited, over-the-top Sally Bowles, a wild, worldly-wise, hedonistic, starry-eyed, promiscuous, passionate American singer/dancer from the Club, has been there for three months.[Note: An oft-quoted observation was made about Selznick rise to power - "The son-in-law also rises" - a clever word-play on Hemingway""s 1926 novelThe Sun Also Rises."The story flashes back to six months earlier, when Joe, a struggling, down-and-out, depressed, Midwestern hack screenwriter, finds that he is unable to sell his scripts ("I seemed to have lost my touch") and is behind three payments on his car.He announces the post office robbery: "Great news! Postoffice bin robbed! Dollar eighty-two cents in postage stamps, eighteen postal cards! Heavy loss to the gov""ment!"Chapter IV:One day of honeymoon before Anna starts home with her great secret.